Comments on: Here’s A Cheerful Thought (Or Two) http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/04/22/heres-a-cheerful-thought-or-two/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: martian http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/04/22/heres-a-cheerful-thought-or-two/comment-page-1/#comment-82384 martian Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:40:04 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=12284#comment-82384 I've been wondering how long it would be before some determined virus writer created one to attack Macs. The company has been touting its freedom from viruses for years as a reaon for buying their product. However their freedom from viruses has never been some kind of invulnerability due to their OS or software, it's only because no one was bothering to write viruses for them. That's probably because it would have required learning a whole new OS and programming languages and the virus writers never found it worth it when there were so many more PCs in the world and they already knew the systems and software. But it was inevitable that one of the malware crowd would eventually turn their 'talents' to cracking Macs and, as the article pointed out, Macs have NO protection whatsoever. If I were a Mac owner I would be very badly worried right now. I’ve been wondering how long it would be before some determined virus writer created one to attack Macs. The company has been touting its freedom from viruses for years as a reaon for buying their product. However their freedom from viruses has never been some kind of invulnerability due to their OS or software, it’s only because no one was bothering to write viruses for them. That’s probably because it would have required learning a whole new OS and programming languages and the virus writers never found it worth it when there were so many more PCs in the world and they already knew the systems and software. But it was inevitable that one of the malware crowd would eventually turn their ‘talents’ to cracking Macs and, as the article pointed out, Macs have NO protection whatsoever. If I were a Mac owner I would be very badly worried right now.

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